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Written by DCist contributor Angela Kleis

>> Summer calendar is packed? Don’t have much time? If you can spare three minutes, visit Pink Line Project and Arlington Arts Center’s “Speed Dating with Artists” event at Poste. The artists in Arlington Arts Center’s Art Scouts exhibit will answer all your questions on contemporary art, and you won’t even have to buy them a drink first. Ask them anything! Happy hour begins at 5 p.m. and speed dating gets underway at 6 p.m. Tickets are $5.

>> Thursday night is the closing party for DECOY Ink at The Fridge. This all-ages party is your last chance to see the tattoo-themed work by Decoy and get a limited-edition tattoo (don’t worry you non-committal types, it’s temporary!) for $20. 6 to 10 p.m.

>> Stop by the Corcoran Gallery of Art before July 18 for American Falls, a multimedia installation by filmmaker Phil Solomon, inspired by one of the Corcoran’s best known paintings, Niagara, Frederic Edwin Church’s 1857 masterpiece. The film features six digital projections of Niagara Falls, plus images of key elements that shaped American history. Water streaming down the walls? That’s one nice way to get out of the heat on a hot July day.

>> Art Whino will have an opening with the work of Tatiana Suarez’s “fusion of culture, folkloric tales and legends” in Malagueta. Get there early for a sketching session with a live model from 7 to 9 p.m., or head over later and loosen your hips with the Latin fusion band. 6 p.m. to midnight.